Giant Mushrooms - No mycelium!

Edit: Neil has made a mini tutorial in the replies for a much smaller giant mushroom farm which uses less materials. I would only recommend my one for those who want more levels or have a lot of blocks they want to use

Are you as desperate as I am to complete the shroom-picker challenge? Are you sick of waiting ages for your mushrooms to spread? Have you used lots of your dirt to make a big mushroom farm? If you answered yes to at least one of those questions, then this tutorial may help

You will need:- A few stacks of a block of your choice (a bit less if you use slabs for the roof)- 1 Dirt- 1 Mushroom- Some bonemeal

Steps:

Step 1: The outline

Build a 9x9 square of cobblestone with torches in this arrangement;

Step 2: Walls

Build the walls 7 blocks high;

Your structure should now look like this;

Step 3: The roof

Use your blocks or slabs to build a roof like this;

Finished!

How to use it:

(Do the first step efficiently, as you don't want mobs to spawn.)

Step 1:

Break all the torches and place the mushroom down in the middle and use bonemeal on it to make it grow;

Step 2:

Place torches back down on the ground and mine out your giant mushroom

Do not forget to place the torches back down once you are done!

-- 15 Feb 2014, 12:20 --

Quick note: Turns out you don't need to break the four torches in the corners to plant the mushrooms

Last edited by nzspottyfur on 15 Feb 2014, 01:51, edited 1 time in total.

Apologies for hijacking this thread, but you don't actually need to create the entire room to grow them, it only has to be dark to plant them and dark enough for them to not pop off the dirt when you grow them.

So you can just create this basic structure:

Then hop inside, place the cobble block above your head (so it's totally dark) and plant the mushroom like so:

Then just smash out the top block you just placed and one of the side blocks so you can get out and you'll end up with:

You must leave that bottom layer or cobble as even in daytime it makes it just dark enough for them to not pop off the floor. Finally just bonemeal that and voila: